Come March, winter is starting to feel long in many portions of the northern hemisphere, enter gardeners, the spring and summer vegetable...

Carpets of violets - Butte County, CA 2021 March has arrived with all her colorful flirty beginning overtures toward Spring. These...

Page Dickey is a gardener, garden designer, author and editor of many notable garden books, and the co-founder of the Garden...

As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Japan to celebrate an amazing project known as The Tokachi Millennium Forest. Dan...

In honor of Lunar New Year which begins with the new moon on February 12th and lasts until the next full moon arrives at the end of the...

Hey – Ok I had to jump in this week to say this: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to CULITVATING PLACE – we are 5 years old this month. With more than 300...

White and Greenleaf Manzanita winter foliage - Butte County CA, January 2021 Did you have a chance to listen to my interview with Karen...

This week we lean into the spirit of the season and the traditional Jewish festival Tu B’Shevat, or New Year of the Trees, in...

MaryLynn Mack is a renaissance woman and leading voice in the world of public gardens today. After beginning her career in the Navy, her...

This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our FRESH STARTS series in conversation with a long established friend in the gardening...

To kick off this new year, Cultivating Place offers out the first in what will be an ongoing and intermittent series exploring Fresh...

The circularity of the Moon and Her Cycles I have been reading and thinking about the concept of circular economies. Which is...

In honor of the losses, loves, griefs, gains, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we...

The Herb Pharm is committed to educating about safe and effective herbalism. Based in Williams, Oregon, their work includes an extensive...

In honor of the Solstice on December 21st and the important pivot in seasonal time that it represents, rest, dark, and dormancy in the...

This week, as tend toward the winter solstice, we continue our exploration of garden and seasonally based winter cheer here in the...

In a year in which gardeners and other humans alike are having to meet and process and pivot around and over and beyond a wide variety of...

The very interesting alchemy that has been 2020 is in its final month. One of the most inspirational things I have done in my 55 years...

“The seed, the seed, the seed….for what is it but a continuation of ourselves? Aren’t we all seeds?" – Vivien Sansour Vivien Sansour is a...

Close up imaging of seeds in the CalBG collection, courtesy of Cal BG and Research Associate, John Macdonald, who has been working to...

As we continue our series exploring some of the people and groups looking out for the integrity and prosperity of seed in our world, we...

Owen Smith Taylor and Chris Bolden-Newsome are culture keepers supporting the community food sovereignty and seed sovereignty and...

A charismatic megaseed of my seedshed - the California buckeye. Glossy and bright, well nestled into the oak leaf litter. It is high seed...

In this last week of October 2020, as a nod to faith and a vote for the future growing seasons, Cultivating Place kicks off a multipart...